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Article: Conspiracy.(Review)
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- Arena Magazine
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- February 1, 1999
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Daniel Pipes Conspiracy, London and New York, The Free Press, 1997.
By now, the culture of conspiracy should have made paranoids of us all. The psychiatric classification of paranoia, and its putative text in the conspiracy theory, have both spawned a vast array of high and popular cultural forms, as well as providing the late-capitalist subject with a powerful series of tropological, narratival and thematic conventions through which s/he may contextualise the present, as well as the ever-receding past. Although we may identify the popularity of conspiratorial thinking (as these books do) in Tudor England or around the time of the French Revolution, it is the ...